Description: CARL H. CLAUDY. OLD TILER TALKS. Washington DC: The Fellowship Forum. FIRST EDITION. 1925. 135 pages. 12mo (7 1/2 by 5 inch) "soft cloth" hardcover, full royal blue cloth, gilt design & titling front. Lightest touch of wear to corners & spine-tips, bump bottom rear corner, vertical crease in front cover, only evident inside (SEE PIC), fore-edge of a few pages slightly ratched near the front (SEE PIC), minor & non-critical separation at title-page (SEE PIC), light rubbing to gilt front, o/w solid & GOOD CONDITION. By the author of MASONIC HARVEST and THE LION’S PAW. OLD TILER TALKS appeared weekly in The Fellowship Forum. They are something like Socratic dialogues with a gruff old Tiler designed to teach various lessons to Masons. In the Foreword the author says: "Old Tiler Talks ... are but a sincere attempt to put in every-day language some of the fundamentals of practical Masonry; to answer, in the words he understands, some of the questions ... 'the average Mason' asks when he is yet but a Young Brother." CONTENTS: FOREWORD. ON WHAT IS MASONRY? • ON SITTING WITH THE SICK. • ON SECRETS OF FREEMASONRY. • ON KNOWING NAMES. • ON BEING ASKED TO JOIN. • ON POOR FISH! • ON FINDING THINGS OUT. • ON BELIEF IN GOD. • ON GETTING SOMETHING OUT OF LODGE. • ON A COUNTRY LODGE. • ON SECRECY OF BALLOT. • ON THE BOOK ON THE ALTAR. • ON THE HELPING HAND. • ON BEING IN STEP. • ON DEFENDING MASONRY. • ON REASONS FOR WANTING TO BE A MASON. • ON COSTUMES. • ON PEPPING UP THE LODGE. • ON BEING A COMMITTEEMAN. • ON MEANING IN WORDS. • ON INVESTIGATING A PETITION. • ON SPENDING MONEY "FOOLISHLY". • ON THE PAINFUL PROCESS OF BECOMING A PAST MASTER. • ON A LODGE BUDGET. • ON MASONIC TALK. • ON OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES. • ON SUBSTITUTES AT FUNERALS. • ON ALL KINDS OF MASONRY. • ON SUBSCRIBING FOR A TEMPLE. • ON ENTERTAINMENT AND LADIES' NIGHTS. • ON MASONIC WAGES. [keywords ceremonial magic magick occult occultism esoterica esoteric enochian john dee cornelius agrippa o.t.o. golden dawn crowley mathers waite renaissance philosophy spiritualism alchemy hermeticism alchemical grimoire sacred geometry myth mythology legend metaphysics metaphysical new age religion mysticism ancient rosy rose cross rosicrucian occult occultism esoteric hidden knowledge esoterica divination scrying metaphysics metaphysical spiritualism spiritism wicca wiccan magic magick rose cross ancient mysteries mystery religions mediaeval medieval renaissance alchemy hermeticism freemasonry masonic secret societies conspiracy egypt egyptian greece greek rome roman paganism pagan druidism feminism theology thealogy paganism neo-paganism neopaganism polytheism angelology archetypal symbolism jungian psychology] NOW SCARCE IN THIS ORIGINAL HARDCOVER EDITION.
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Organization: Freemasonry
Year: 1925
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
